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Women in tales and tech
100

This woman made history in the 2020 election as the first female Vice President

Who is Kamala Harris?

100

Today, Gmail is far and above the most popular email service in the world, with 1.5 billion users worldwide, but it's not the first Gmail: in 2004, the original Gmail was a service for fans of this lasagna-addicted comic strip character

Who is Garfield?

100

Long before she married Bill, this philanthropist and computer scientist (born and raised in Dallas) first “clicked” with an Apple II computer when she was a student at St. Monica Catholic School

Who is Melinda Gates?


100

In almost every country in the world, women rank higher than men in this metric used to determine a country's quality of life 

What is life expectancy?

100

This movie highlights the three African American mathematicians working at Nasa in the 1960s

What is Hidden Figures?

200

This woman was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Who is Aretha Franklin?

200

This little guy is the default "Office Assistant" that appeared in Microsoft's Office suite of software, beginning with Windows 97

Who is Clippit?

Who is Clippy?

200

Which scientist was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes?

Who is Marie Curie?

200

Women typically outpace men in education. In the U.S., they earn over 60% of these each year

What are college diplomas?

200

Shuri, the brilliant tech-obsessed teenage sister to her superhero brother uses her talents to make Wakanda the most technologically advanced country in the world in what movie?

What is Black Panther?

300

This woman is the most decorated gymnast in Olympic history

Who is Simone Biles?

300

This C-word cybersecurity firm based in Austin has a one-word compound name that implies it can attack problems quickly across a variety of software. Its logo is a red hawk swooping in, just like bad luck on July 18, 2024.

What is CrowdStrike?

300

This pioneer in computer programming and Naval officer has a popular conference named after her that takes place in Philadelphia this year. 

Who is Grace Hopper?

300

Men have historically outnumbered women in the Olympic games. What was the first year that 50% of Olympic athletes were men and 50% were women?

What is 2024?

300

Lisbeth Salandar can dig up anything on anyone using any computer in this popular book series adapted to film in 2011

What is the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo?

400

This woman broke through the glass ceiling and the atmosphere when she became the first woman in space. 

Who is? Valentina Tereshkova

400

You get this color if you mix together the two colors that appear twice in the Google logo

What is purple?
400

Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and is considered the first woman in this STEM role

What is computer programming?

400

CHG boasts over 50% of women in this position, impressive compared to 10.4% in Fortune 500 companies. 

What is leadership?

400

Even though this show is solidly set in a fictional genre, they couldn't fight magic without Willow, the computer wizz in this 1990s cult classic TV show

What is Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

500

Mary Surrat was the first woman officially executed by the United States Federal Governement after conspiring to assassinate this U.S. President

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

It's an integrated development environment used in computer programming, written in Java with a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system? Initially released in 2001, it gets its name not from the popular YA Fiction series, but from an obscuring of light caused by a celestial body.

What is Eclipse?

500

Hedy Lamarr invented this precursor to wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS

What is frequency hopping?

What is signal hopping?

500

In 1950, women made up less than 2% of this federal organization. As of 2018, the number has increased to over 17%

What is the U.S. Armed Forces?

500

This nonconformist technical analyst solves crimes with her team in the hit police procedural show Criminal Minds

Who is Penelope Garcia?